
OPERA BÉRLET
The Hungarian National Philharmonic’s audience is long accustomed to having an Opera subscription on offer each new season. It was during Zoltán Kocsis’s tenure as chief music director that the orchestra and choir began presenting works for the musical stage, an endeavor also essential to György Vashegyi’s programming concept. All three opera productions slated for the 2025/26 season will be performed in concert format. The works – one Italian, the others French and Russian – all date from the 19th century. Verdi’s Nabucco and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin are both immortal opera favourites, while the three-act Jean de Nivelle, by Léo Delibes, serves to continue the tradition of recent years of introducing new discoveries from music history.